In our society we do not pay the real cost or producing and distributing consumer goods. There is a very interesting presentation about it at <a href="
http://www.storyofstuff.com/" target="_blank">storyofstuff.com</a>, i highly recommend it.
Corporations are a necessary evil. They are obviously needed for the economy to continue to thrive as it is.
And while I appreciate her grossly biased liberal viewpoints that don't take anything into consideration... They aren't practical. They are gross misrepresentations of actual facts and they never, ever, posit a practical solution to this "evil system" that blames the government for every one of our problems. She explains that extraction is wrong because we take more than "our fair share" as though the world was an equal playing field were we're given a "share" of the Earth.
She goes on to speak about production and complains about evil addititves that make us sick... Which don't seem to be bothering me all that much.
Then she goes on to explain that the costs of our goods are being paid for by 3rd world nations.
It's because there's such a gross double standard and she proved my point, although I doubt she intended to.
The double standard?
Third World countries pay with there "lives" by dedicating themselves to a job that they hate. Well me too.
The benefit is that we get cheaper products... and you know what. We do! It's a good benefit. I like my products cheaper. I'm just thinking you like them too. She talks about our "disposable economy" and makes some errors about upgrading computers and talks about making people throw junk away so that new stuff can be purchased.
You know what. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with us continuing to produce and consume and produce and consume. You know why? Because when the consumption shops and we are no longer throwing stuff away... People are no longer producing stuff. Guess what... That means your jobs get place in a situation of jeopardy. This is basically an attempt to attack capitalism by telling us how we should be less concerned with spending and shopping and making money flow around. OUR economy is run by money though without spending and shopping corporations don't make money, and if they don't have money they start laying US off. You didn't shop and now you don't have a job.
She makes it seem like what we should be doing is "just stop"ing that viscious circle of work, spend, work, spend. In reality though you spend to have jobs available and you work to be able to pay for things that you need. Baby formula costs. Clothes cost. The economy as it is now NEEDS your spending and my spending so that we all have jobs.
Now, I'm not saying that she should be so easily dismissed she does bring up interesting points, some that are halfway truthful.
What I am saying is that her opinion is so obviously biased towards a world that doesn't exist and cannot pratically exist and it is painfully obvious that her hatred is really aimed at the basic economic structure of our society.
The big problem is in her "ANOTHER WAY" section. She wants us to remove "disposal" and she lists all kinds of great new ways to fix the problem in the last 40 SECONDS of a 20 minute and 40 second video. She complained for 20 minutes about how horrible the system was and attempted to fix the problem with the last 40 seconds of her chat there.
This is the problem, she is okay with presenting the problems in the current system but won't even mention the new idea long enough to find its flaws, which I assure you are many.
I'm all for a new way of the world working, but liberally biased slash-media isn't going to get that done.
